Dr Simon Carmel
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874769
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Location
EBS.3.61, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911
Profile
Biography
I joined the University of Essex in July 2005 and took up my present post in Essex Business School in January 2013. Previous responsibilities and posts include: Acting Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Essex; Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Essex; Lecturer in Health Studies, School of Health and Human Sciences, Essex; Senior Research Officer, University Hospital Lewisham; Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Research Fellow, Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre.
Qualifications
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PhD (London), Sociology as Applied to Medicine
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MSc (Surrey), Social Research
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MSc (Liverpool), Software Engineering
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BSc (Durham), Natural Sciences
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Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Research and professional activities
Research interests
professional values
organisational and workplace ethnography
teamwork, inter-professional relations and the division of labour
academic evaluation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
micro-social theory (interactionism, strong structuration, practice theory)
the concept of vocation
Conferences and presentations
2017: The association of institutional location with two moral orders of professionalism, International Sociological Association Research Committee 52 Interim conference, Oslo, June.
Oslo, Norway, 2017
2017: 'Two moral orders of professionalism, Centre for Work, Organisational and Society, Essex Business School, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2017
2017: SST and the enactment of professional values (with Pinar Guven-Uslu). Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, University of Essex, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2017
2016: 'Paradoxical Clinical Practice',Process in Organisational Studies Symposium, Corfu, June.
Corfu, Greece, 2016
2016: Habitus and (in)active agency in public sector management accounting (with Pinar Guven-Uslu). Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, Paris, May
Paris, France, 2016
2014: 'Science, marketing and professional values', Essex Business School Research Conference, January
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2014
2013: 'Science, marketing and professional values', International Sociological Association Research Committee 52 Interim Conference, Lisbon, November.
Lisbon, Portugal, 2013
2012: 'Clinical Practice and Social Theory, British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, Leicester, September
Leicester, United Kingdom, 2012
2011: The PROWESS Clinical Trial Conundrum, School of Health and Human Sciences Staff Research Day, University of Essex, July.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2011
2011: Expert nurses and the division of labour in hospitals, School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2011
2010: Expert nurses and the division of labour in hospitals, International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, July.
Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010
2009: Gaining access as a social and problematic phenomenon, Essex Business School Management Group, December.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2009
2007: Qualitative evaluation of outreach services in critical care, Southern Outreach Forum, Haywards Heath, October.
2007
2007: Evaluating Critical care without walls: the social meaning of an organisational innovation, British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, Liverpool, September.
Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2007
2007: Evaluation of critical care outreach services: Results from a qualitative sub-study, National Outreach Forum, Sheffield, March.
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2007
2007: Knowledge, practice and action: the craft of high technology health care, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, February.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2007
2006: Problems of Social Access: are ethnographers gossips? Ethnography in Social and Management Sciences Conference, Liverpool, September
Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2006
2006: The social organisation of high technology health care, Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, February.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2006
2005: The transition from paediatric to adult services for young people with a chronic illness. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2005
2004: The craft of high technology medicine. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2004
2003: Problems in the practice of high technology medicine. British Sociological Association Annual Conference, York, April.
York, United Kingdom, 2003
2002: The organisation of work in intensive care. International Conference on Organisational Behaviour in Health Care, Oxford, March.
Oxford, United Kingdom, 2002
2001: Uncertainty in intensive care work. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2001
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Introduction to Management and Marketing (BE400)
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Psychology of Work : A Myers Briggs Perspective (BE421)
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Personality and Work: a Myers-Briggs Perspective (BE484)
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Student Success Tutorial (BE917)
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Independent Study Project: Management/Marketing (BE938)
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Research Methods in Management and Marketing (BE965)
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Research Portfolio (BE985)
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The Director's Workshops (BE860)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Public Health (Health Visiting)
Awarded date: 6/6/2016
Degree type: Master of Science
Awarded date: 21/11/2014
Publications
Journal articles (4)
Carmel, S., (2013). The craft of intensive care medicine. Sociology of Health & Illness. 35 (5), 731-745
Carmel, S. and Baker-McClearn, D., (2011). Expert Nurses and the Division of Labour in Hospitals. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 16 (3), 282-297
Carmel, S., (2011). Social access in the workplace: are ethnographers gossips?. Work, Employment & Society. 25 (3), 551-560
Baker-McClearn, D. and Carmel, S., (2008). Impact of critical care outreach services on the delivery and organization of hospital care. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 13 (3), 152-157
Contact
Academic support hours:
You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911